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warbird001
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After reading Peregrine Falcon's informative history on Cryptic and the Klingon Empire. It appears that in three years, Cryptic have been consistently lying and manipulating their player base. It is sad to see Star Trek used in this way, I've never been overly enthralled with the Klingon Empire so I never noticed before but I really feel for Klingon players due to what they have had to put up with from Cryptic.
Cryptic had made consistent mistakes on both the Federation and Klingon side and now they want to bring in a third faction as well? I think its about time they admitted that they just cannot cope with the scope of the project and give it over to somebody who can.
Unfortunately, I fear that things are only going to get worse when the lockboxes and ships are going to wear thin over the gaping lack of content. Why should Stahl and the rest of the team care about the monster they created? Not with people signing their paychecks each month with lock-boxes.
Cryptic had made consistent mistakes on both the Federation and Klingon side and now they want to bring in a third faction as well? I think its about time they admitted that they just cannot cope with the scope of the project and give it over to somebody who can.
Unfortunately, I fear that things are only going to get worse when the lockboxes and ships are going to wear thin over the gaping lack of content. Why should Stahl and the rest of the team care about the monster they created? Not with people signing their paychecks each month with lock-boxes.
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So how long are we supposed to sit here and hope while they milk us for money and add items into the game the unbalance PvP and have no need to be in the game in the first place. I would be happy to have another Year of Hell if it meant they would completely redesign the game from the ground up.
Lets say they did make flying snowcones....would that be the next breen ship giveaway?
It's not that they can't, they choose not to. They're convinced that their survival depends on catering to the majority but they don't want to lose the minority players so they say they will do something, put in a half-hearted attempt (ya, I'm an optimist) then can't deliver so they re-promise something in the future.
Look at the anniversary mission, the KDF version is exactly the same as the Fed. They couldn't even swap out the ship (guess that would hose the tasha character appearance) without a major dialog re-write.
Season 8 better be spectacular. If not, theres always next year.
Awoken Dead
Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
Indeed. Given the fragile state of affairs of the prime STO timeline and the volatile backstory presented in the Tholian timeline, I would have no reason to trust or take anything at face value as delivered by Yar, Drake, or Castillo. There would be no reason for me to stake my occupation and livelihood, temporally tampered or not, on the word of a few humans.
Al Rivera hates Klingons
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All cloaks should be canon.
LOL, as an above poster put it - it's free. So I'm obliged to forgive them for maiking my Klingon toons rescue Enterprise-C, then giving me something else when I complete the mission.
Awoken Dead
Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
*Facepaw* lol
I've heard that with Season 4,5,6,7. And Ill keep hearing it for 8.9.10....
I quit STO after season 4 and just came back a couple of days ago. PLENTY of changes and stuff for me to do now!
Since they managed to increase staff, one would expect that they are finally doing well now and with increased numbers they can catter to the neglected parts of STO.
Needles to say, I don't expect KDF to ever be on the same level as the Feds. The Fed. has more players and is the rich utopia type. KDF has less and it's the sturdy warrior faction. And that is ok.
I would be satisfied if we get 1 KDF ship for every 3 Fed. I would be satisfied if we get 1 costume for every 3 or 4 the Fed. gets. That would be ok.
What is not ok is the statement they made that KDF will not be getting ships in the Z-Store any time soon. What is not ok is when asked about KDF ships getting the answer that the KDF will have ships availible from the next lock box. Well, so will the Feds. So what? If they made faction specific ships in the lockboxes like the temporal one was, I would understand this. But, I don't want my Klingon in a slow fat-TRIBBLE Jem'Hadar Dreadnought. I want it in a Klingon design.
Like I said, I don't expect KDF to be ever at the same level as the Fed. Nor do I insist on it. What I consider to be finished KDF faction is having the opportunity to have the 30% from what the Fed. gets, but this to be done constantly. I'll consider KDF finished when I have missions and FEs thay would give me that Klingon feel instead of nonsence like "make Cassidy a nerve tonic". Or a Klingon Captain, Nausicaan pirate and Orion marauder beam to Drozana in TOS era and McCoy gives them a hypospray and is like "let's save some people now."
*facepalm* If they saw this trio in TOS timeline, they'd sound the alarm
I don't expect miracles in S8, but it will be the key to see if anyone is serious about KDF development any more.
We've stopped calling it a season for starters. When we look at all the time and energy being put into this next update, it feels like it's shaping into something much larger. While we haven't shared specifics yet, we will be detailing our plans for the Klingon faction in the coming months.
Toss in the Romulan page stuff, the Friday screenshot, etc, etc, etc... and well, it's hard not to read the above as:
We've stopped calling it a season for starters. When we look at all the time and energy being put into this Romulan update, it feels like it's shaping into something much larger.
While we haven't shared specifics yet, we will be detailing our plans for the Klingon faction down the road in the coming months.
Can I also state that he left the project once before as well and only came back when PW offered him a fair bit of money. I think we personally need an executive producer who is going to be more straight up and not content to lie to us all the time. A little bit of honest from Cryptic would go a long way.
If Cryptic would just admit that the Klingons need work and actually spend some time doing it, even if it took a while and it was a gradual process. But they cut the bull and just were honest with the player-base with what they were doing. This game would instantly be better.
Forgive me for not having an answer but I missed the episode about Enterprise-C causing a monumental change to history. If a young Gorkon or Martok had been onboard one of the pursuing klingon ships mentioned in the mission it would likely have made more sense to my KDF toons rescuing the captured captain and his kamarag, without changing anything else in the mission except to have the option to have him distract the guard.
Awoken Dead
Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
Btw, a 'string of broken promises' to you is merely standard business wording for me. Everything they say is not set in stone, merely 'We're gonna TRY to get this done by then'. They get it done, then great, if not, then changes/setbacks/etc happened and we continue onward like normal.
It's a subtle distinction, but a crucial one.
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
Stahl flat out lying about major content details is far from without precedent.
It's like regular soda vs. diet soda. Once you get used to diet soda, regular soda tastes funny. Having gotten used to the red, the blue seems awkward.
Its time to be the stoic faction and just wait to see if this new promise/hint/ whatever of upcomming KDF content comes to be or falls through again.
We lose nothing at this point if they fail to deliver but they lose potientail revenue.
I do hold some hope that the new year holds more for us as promised (no rse before the KDF is completed) and we can finally burry the hatchet and just enjoy the game.
R.I.P
+1 on this :cool:
Yeah, I know, but to be fair the situation for Cryptic has not been quite rosy in the past. If I look really really hard into it, I can find some logical reason for their past broken promises even if I don't agree with them nor understand their perception.
But now when they say they doubled the staff and have more positions opened, I'm safe to say they're doing well (which I'm happy for) and they will not have any excuse on not delivering more to the KDF.
@bitemepwe - I share your feeling of optimism for the KDF about the upcomming year. I'm not sure why, but I feel we'll start to get a few nice things here and there that would help the KDF becomming more complete over time.
I don't mind piloting the Enterprise as a Klingon, but at the very least the dialogue should have been changed to make more sense. Why does Yar expect a member of the KDF to care about changing the Federation back to the way it used to be? That would not be in the interests of the Empire.
S.Y.C.
I love this game but its so hard for new players to get into it because of lack of information and misinformation
I really hope they don't bring a new faction out and chose to finish the factions they've got klinks really need some help science wise and raptorwise not to mention the glitches witch come with levelling up
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
Hey, I'd even be okay with re-using a few Federation costume packs for the KDF, like the Bajoran and Mercenary gear. Another idea is, make the species-exclusive costume parts like the Orion and Nausican gear available for all characters, or at least the Alien option.
It's rehashing the little things, yes, but it's a start.
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